IOS 13.1.3 battery drain

Yes!!! I agree I did this update two nights ago and ever since then my battery drains rapidly!!!! 30% in 15 minutes!! That’s insane and absolutely ridiculous. I did this update to fix my phone not ruin it! I feel like it’s ruined. I have had my phone for a while and never had this issue. Ever. It’s 9:30 am and I have 30 % left and I literally haven’t been using it this morning. Fix this now. It makes me really angry!!!

Forgive my cynicism, but this is exactly the type of problem that gets identified and corrected during alpha and beta testing and never, ever gets into the production release.

This problem is spread across the entire iOS 13 user base. I have been using my iPhone 6s for about a year now. I charge every night and use the phone all day. Through to iOS 12, I would typically bed down the phone with about 55% battery remaining. Since iOS 13, my phone has been giving me the 20% low battery warning at dinner time. That's about a 50% loss of productivity just for having installed iOS 13.

That's my two cents.

Lokgeetin wrote:

All I can tell you is that the internet is plastered with complaints about this battery problem and all occurring since this recent upgrade.

All I can tell you is that every, and I mean EVERY time iOS has been updated in the past 12 years the Internet is "plastered with complaints about this battery problem". Plastered being a relative number, somewhere between a dozen and a few hundred. This update is no different; in fact, the number of complaints for iOS 13.1.3 is vanishingly small compared to many other updates, INCLUDING iOS 12, which you are sure never had a problem.

You are, of course, free to believe whatever you want, but the probability that it is specifically the update that is the problem and not some app misbehaving is vanishingly small. When iOS 13.2 comes out it may or may not fix YOUR problem, but that doesn't prove that it was still 13.1.3. And I absolutely guarantee that whether it fixes your problem or not others will post messages similar to yours claiming that 13.2 killed their battery life, which was great with 13.1.3. This is a pattern that has been repeated dozens of times in 12 years.

What about this then.

With no Apps open my iphone 7 was showing 62% battery.

I hard booted the phone and it came back on with 89% battery.

On another matter, is it necessary for some of the posters on here to be so aggressive and rude to other forum members?

Each one of us are experiencing issues with our phones and batteries which may be similar, the same or otherwise.

Nobody has the right to be offensive to others on here.

However, what is clearly missing on this forum is absolutely any response whatsoever from any Apple technician or representative.

So, what is the point of this forum if nothing being recommended by any member, is resolving the issue?

Finally, to the poster who had a dig at another forum member who Posted a video link rather than laboriously type out the steps, shame on you!

I agree with Lawerence the point of the forum seems to be for Level 9 \ 10 to say go to a Genius bar rather than acknowledge there is a problem and correlate any practical suggestions. My solution each time my iPhone goes into meltdown is to tuen it off till it cools down then it appears ok for a few days. Waiting for an IOS solution to the problem, I won't be updating so quickly in the future that's for sure.

I have the exact same problem! I thought I was going crazy or something because my batteries would die within a couple of hours. I used to get at least a day of use out of it. For instance, I used my phone for less than 30 mins this morning and I am currently down to 79%.

I’m facing same problem, battery is draining like anything after updating to 13.1.3. One thing I observed location services are getting turned on automatically even all apps are closed. Apple should fix this problem and roll out updated version ASAP. Otherwise we need to put a power bank to mobile 24/7.

What you need to  sort out is the battery management software on your recent 13.2 (17B84) updates.

My battery drains quickly but more importantly, how does a 100% battery drop to 2% in less than an hour.

Then, hard reboot the phone and come back at 85%

Impossible.

You have a software problem and you need to fix it otherwise, you will lose confidence and customers will (like me) buy another phone from another provider.

Apple is well aware of this problem.

You have a team of specialist engineers. Fix this problem quickly please.

Exact same issue on iPhone 7+. Thought I was going mad, as had no issues with battery, and always got a day and a bit of usage out of my phone from charge. Now all of a sudden its dropping massive chunks of battery life when its not even being used. This morning, only had my phone charged to 75% (8am), checked an hour later after no use and it dropped to 40%, now at 1.30pm (been hardly used) its down to 4% and about to die. Yet according to my battery stats, only used the phone for an hour today (screen on time).

Terrible update. Hope they fix it, as phone is as good as useless at the moment and its my work phone.

I have an iPhone SE, 128GB. Under iOS 12 my phone battery health reported 91% battery life, with the battery lasted nearly two days under typical usage, and I could get one full charge from my favorite battery pack before it drained to one bar (plugged in to the wall with an Apple charger, a full charge would take more than four hours).

Upon upgrading to iOS 13, my phone immediately dropped to a health of 88% battery life, I began getting 4-5 "full" charges from that same battery pack, and it would only take about an hour and a half for the phone to report 100% charged. Additionally, once I hit 30% charge, the phone will loose a percent of charge every 15-20 seconds till it's drained a few minutes later. Long story short, I need to charge my phone 2-3x per day even if all apps are closed and I'm not using the phone at all.

iOS 13 broke my battery. This change was not gradual, it was instant--on iOS 12 I got nearly two days of battery life from my phone, upon upgrading to iOS 13 my phone instantly required 2 to 3 charges per day.

Also, bluetooth sucks too, now--people only hear parts of each word I'm saying after a few minutes into the call, and I end up having to switch to speaker phone.

Paul

I upgraded my iPhone 7 - BIG MISTAKE! The battery shortly became "significantly degraded" and the phone was a loss. I had to replace it via upgrade for more $$. I did not know, until too late, that the upgrade could "degrade" the battery. Thanks a lot, Apple.

I’ve also had battery problems on my iPhone SE since upgrading to iOS 13.1.3 but I suspect it may be false indication. The battery level drops rapidly to 1% but is then still usable for many hours. It still needs to be fixed, though.

It sounds like your new iPhone is syncing with your iCloud photos to download them to your new phone. I might be wrong but it should get better once that process is over.

The problem I have on my XS is that there is literally no usage in the battery graphs but the battery drops at exactly the same rate. My old iPhone 7 has a flat line overnight. My XS battery drains even on low power mode or when I switch off all back ground refresh. Both are on the same iOS. I have another appointment at the Genius Bar and hopefully they’ll have a solution this time.